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Post by Dr Terror on Nov 24, 2014 14:53:14 GMT
A brief but rather splendid conte cruel by The Brothers Grimm.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 24, 2014 16:39:56 GMT
But imagine how much better and more effective these stories would be if stretched out endlessly, perhaps to 600 pages. Perhaps by Stephen King.
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 24, 2014 19:37:10 GMT
A brief but rather splendid conte cruel by The Brothers Grimm. You've made me take this off the shelves: Zipes mentions this story and several others in the context of child abuse: "These tales indicate that there was widespread child abuse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and they are clearly symbolic representations by their narrators and writers of disturbed relations in the different types of families that existed at that time." Sounds a bit simplistic to me, and I always get skeptical when someone says "clearly" to support a gross generalisation.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Nov 24, 2014 19:44:26 GMT
It is not the first thing that occurred to me.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 1, 2014 7:00:24 GMT
A brief but rather splendid conte cruel by The Brothers Grimm. You've made me take this off the shelves: Zipes mentions this story and several others in the context of child abuse: "These tales indicate that there was widespread child abuse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and they are clearly symbolic representations by their narrators and writers of disturbed relations in the different types of families that existed at that time." Sounds a bit simplistic to me, and I always get skeptical when someone says "clearly" to support a gross generalisation. Agreed. There's also this application of modern terminology and conceptual frameworks. The son of the biblical Jacob could then be regarded as a victim of abuse as could virtually very child ever born up to the lucky ones in the modern generation.
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 17, 2021 10:48:34 GMT
A brief but rather splendid conte cruel by The Brothers Grimm. You've made me take this off the shelves: Zipes mentions this story and several others in the context of child abuse: "These tales indicate that there was widespread child abuse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and they are clearly symbolic representations by their narrators and writers of disturbed relations in the different types of families that existed at that time." Sounds a bit simplistic to me, and I always get skeptical when someone says "clearly" to support a gross generalisation. From an 1886 translation of Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm. The end of "Rumpelstiltskin": '"Then perhaps your name is Rumpelstiltskin!" "The devil told you that! the devil told you that!" cried the little man, and in his anger he stamped with his right foot so hard that it went into the ground above his knee; then he seized his left foot with both his hands in such a fury that he split in two, and there was an end of him.' Did he leave a stain?
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